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Ferrell CL, Barnhart MD, Watson AT, Barron-Chapman ML, Naber SJ. Long-term radiographic appearance of a bioabsorbable biocomposite tibial tuberosity advancement cage implant. Aust Vet J 2019; 98:26-30. [PMID: 31789431 DOI: 10.1111/avj.12894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2018] [Revised: 07/22/2019] [Accepted: 10/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To report the radiographic appearance of a bioabsorbable biocomposite tibial tuberosity advancement cage at least 1 year after implantation. Design Retrospective case series. METHODS Medical records (February 2014-March 2015) of dogs receiving a biocomposite tibial tuberosity advancement cage were reviewed. Cases were selected if they had undergone surgery at least 1 year before the selection, no additional surgeries were performed, and no known surgical site infection had occurred. Medical record information assessed included signalment, body weight (kg), affected stifle joint (left or right), date of original surgery and the size of biocomposite cage used (9 or 12 mm). Radiographs were evaluated by two blinded radiologists who calculated percentages of osteolucency present in five zones around the cage and assigned a numerical score based on these calculations. Variables were evaluated statistically for effect on lucency percentage and numerical score. RESULTS Fifty dogs were included. Zone 5 (caudoproximal area) was found to have the lowest lucency percentage and score and zone 3 (distal area) had the highest lucency percentage and score. Twelve-millimetre cages were significantly associated with a higher lucency numerical score than 9 mm cages. CONCLUSION A biocomposite tibial tuberosity advancement cage was found to have variable amounts of radiographically apparent osseous integration at least 1 year after implantation.
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- C L Ferrell
- Department of Surgery, Medvet Medical and Cancer Centers, Worthington, Ohio
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- Department of Surgery, Medvet Medical and Cancer Centers, Worthington, Ohio
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- Department of Radiology, Medvet Medical and Cancer Centers, Worthington, Ohio
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- Department of Radiology, Medvet Medical and Cancer Centers, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
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Ros-Tárraga P, Rabadan-Ros R, Murciano A, Meseguer-Olmo L, De Aza PN. Assessment of Effects of Si-Ca-P Biphasic Ceramic on the Osteogenic Differentiation of a Population of Multipotent Adult Human Stem Cells. MATERIALS 2016; 9:ma9120969. [PMID: 28774090 PMCID: PMC5456983 DOI: 10.3390/ma9120969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2016] [Revised: 11/11/2016] [Accepted: 11/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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A new type of bioceramic with osteogenic properties, suitable for hard tissue regeneration, was synthesised. The ceramic was designed and obtained in the Nurse’s A-phase-silicocarnotite subsystem. The selected composition was that corresponding to the eutectoid 28.39 wt % Nurse’s A-phase-71.61 wt % silicocarnotite invariant point. We report the effect of Nurse’s A-phase-silicocarnotite ceramic on the capacity of multipotent adult human mesenchymal stem cells (ahMSCs) cultured under experimental conditions, known to adhere, proliferate and differentiate into osteoblast lineage cells. The results at long-term culture (28 days) on the material confirmed that the undifferentiated ahMSCs cultured and in contact with the material surface adhered, spread, proliferated, and produced a mineralised extracellular matrix on the studied ceramic, and finally acquired an osteoblastic phenotype. These findings indicate that it underwent an osteoblast differentiation process. All these findings were more significant than when cells were grown on plastic, in the presence and absence of this osteogenic supplement, and were more evident when this supplement was present in the growth medium (GM). The ceramic evaluated herein was bioactive, cytocompatible and capable of promoting the proliferation and differentiation of undifferentiated ahMSCs into osteoblasts, which may be important for bone integration into the clinical setting.
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- Patricia Ros-Tárraga
- Grupo de Investigación en Regeneración y Reparación de Tejidos, UCAM-Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Guadalupe, 30107 Murcia, Spain.
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- Grupo de Investigación en Regeneración y Reparación de Tejidos, UCAM-Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Guadalupe, 30107 Murcia, Spain.
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- Departamento de Materiales, Óptica y Tecnologia Electrónica, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Avda. Universidad s/n, 03202 Elche (Alicante), Spain.
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- Service of Orthopaedic at Arrixaca University Hospital, UCAM-Catholic University of Murcia, 30120 Murcia, Spain.
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- Instituto de Bioingenieria, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Avda. Ferrocarril s/n. Elche, 03202 Alicante, Spain.
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Rabadan-Ros R, Velásquez PA, Meseguer-Olmo L, De Aza PN. Morphological and Structural Study of a Novel Porous Nurse's A Ceramic with Osteoconductive Properties for Tissue Engineering. MATERIALS 2016; 9:ma9060474. [PMID: 28773593 PMCID: PMC5456827 DOI: 10.3390/ma9060474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2016] [Revised: 06/06/2016] [Accepted: 06/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The characterization process of a new porous Nurse’s A ceramic and the physico chemical nature of the remodeled interface between the implant and the surrounding bone were studied after in vivo implantation. Scaffolds were prepared by a solid-state reaction and implanted in New Zealand rabbits. Animals were sacrificed on days 15, 30, and 60. The porous biomaterial displayed biocompatible, bioresorbable, and osteoconductive capacity. The degradation processes of implants also encouraged osseous tissue ingrowths into the material’s pores, and drastically changed the macro- and microstructure of the implants. After 60 healing days, the resorption rates were 52.62% ± 1.12% for the ceramic and 47.38% ± 1.24% for the residual biomaterial. The elemental analysis showed a gradual diffusion of the Ca and Si ions from the materials into the newly forming bone during the biomaterial’s resorption process. The energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) analysis of the residual ceramic revealed some particle categories with different mean Ca/P ratios according to size, and indicated various resorption process stages. Since osteoconductive capacity was indicated for this material and bone ingrowth was possible, it could be applied to progressively substitute an implant.
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- Ruben Rabadan-Ros
- Grupo de Investigación en Regeneración y Reparación de Tejidos, UCAM-Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Guadalupe, Murcia 30107, Spain.
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- Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández Avda, Universidad s/n, Elche, Alicante 03202, Spain.
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- Service of Orthopaedic at Arrixaca University Hospital, UCAM-Catholic University of Murcia, Murcia 30120, Spain.
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- Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández Avda, Universidad s/n, Elche, Alicante 03202, Spain.
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Viti F, Scaglione S, Orro A, Milanesi L. Guidelines for managing data and processes in bone and cartilage tissue engineering. BMC Bioinformatics 2014; 15 Suppl 1:S14. [PMID: 24564199 PMCID: PMC4015954 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-s1-s14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Background In the last decades, a wide number of researchers/clinicians involved in tissue engineering field published several works about the possibility to induce a tissue regeneration guided by the use of biomaterials. To this aim, different scaffolds have been proposed, and their effectiveness tested through in vitro and/or in vivo experiments. In this context, integration and meta-analysis approaches are gaining importance for analyses and reuse of data as, for example, those concerning the bone and cartilage biomarkers, the biomolecular factors intervening in cell differentiation and growth, the morphology and the biomechanical performance of a neo-formed tissue, and, in general, the scaffolds' ability to promote tissue regeneration. Therefore standards and ontologies are becoming crucial, to provide a unifying knowledge framework for annotating data and supporting the semantic integration and the unambiguous interpretation of novel experimental results. Results In this paper a conceptual framework has been designed for bone/cartilage tissue engineering domain, by now completely lacking standardized methods. A set of guidelines has been provided, defining the minimum information set necessary for describing an experimental study involved in bone and cartilage regenerative medicine field. In addition, a Bone/Cartilage Tissue Engineering Ontology (BCTEO) has been developed to provide a representation of the domain's concepts, specifically oriented to cells, and chemical composition, morphology, physical characterization of biomaterials involved in bone/cartilage tissue engineering research. Conclusions Considering that tissue engineering is a discipline that traverses different semantic fields and employs many data types, the proposed instruments represent a first attempt to standardize the domain knowledge and can provide a suitable means to integrate data across the field.
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Viti F, Merelli I, Timmermans M, den Bakker M, Beltrame F, Riegman P, Milanesi L. Semi-automatic identification of punching areas for tissue microarray building: the tubular breast cancer pilot study. BMC Bioinformatics 2010; 11:566. [PMID: 21087464 PMCID: PMC2996409 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2009] [Accepted: 11/18/2010] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Tissue MicroArray technology aims to perform immunohistochemical staining on hundreds of different tissue samples simultaneously. It allows faster analysis, considerably reducing costs incurred in staining. A time consuming phase of the methodology is the selection of tissue areas within paraffin blocks: no utilities have been developed for the identification of areas to be punched from the donor block and assembled in the recipient block. RESULTS The presented work supports, in the specific case of a primary subtype of breast cancer (tubular breast cancer), the semi-automatic discrimination and localization between normal and pathological regions within the tissues. The diagnosis is performed by analysing specific morphological features of the sample such as the absence of a double layer of cells around the lumen and the decay of a regular glands-and-lobules structure. These features are analysed using an algorithm which performs the extraction of morphological parameters from images and compares them to experimentally validated threshold values. Results are satisfactory since in most of the cases the automatic diagnosis matches the response of the pathologists. In particular, on a total of 1296 sub-images showing normal and pathological areas of breast specimens, algorithm accuracy, sensitivity and specificity are respectively 89%, 84% and 94%. CONCLUSIONS The proposed work is a first attempt to demonstrate that automation in the Tissue MicroArray field is feasible and it can represent an important tool for scientists to cope with this high-throughput technique.
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- Federica Viti
- Institute for Biomedical Technologies of the National Research Council, Segrate (Milan), Italy
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- Institute for Biomedical Technologies of the National Research Council, Segrate (Milan), Italy
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- Department of Pathology of the Josephine Nefkens Institute, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pathology of the Josephine Nefkens Institute, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- University of Genoa, Department of of Communication Computer and System Sciences, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Pathology of the Josephine Nefkens Institute, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Biomedical Technologies of the National Research Council, Segrate (Milan), Italy
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Renghini C, Komlev V, Fiori F, Verné E, Baino F, Vitale-Brovarone C. Micro-CT studies on 3-D bioactive glass-ceramic scaffolds for bone regeneration. Acta Biomater 2009; 5:1328-37. [PMID: 19038589 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2008.10.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2008] [Revised: 10/03/2008] [Accepted: 10/20/2008] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The aim of this study was the preparation and characterization of bioactive glass-ceramic scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. For this purpose, a glass belonging to the system SiO2-P2O5-CaO-MgO-Na2O-K2O (CEL2) was used. The sponge-replication method was adopted to prepare the scaffolds; specifically, a polymeric skeleton was impregnated with a slurry containing CEL2 powder, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as a binding agent and distilled water. The impregnated sponge was then thermally treated to remove the polymeric phase and to sinter the inorganic one. The obtained scaffolds possessed an open and interconnected porosity, analogous to cancellous bone texture, and with a mechanical strength above 2 MPa. Moreover, the scaffolds underwent partial bioresorption due to ion-leaching phenomena. This feature was investigated by X-ray computed microcomputed tomography (micro-CT). Micro-CT is a three-dimensional (3-D) radiographic imaging technique, able to achieve a spatial resolution close to 1 microm(3). The use of synchrotron radiation allows the selected photon energy to be tuned to optimize the contrast among the different phases in the investigated samples. The 3-D scaffolds were soaked in a simulated body fluid (SBF) to study the formation of hydroxyapatite microcrystals on the scaffold struts and on the internal pore walls. The 3-D scaffolds were also soaked in a buffer solution (Tris-HCl) for different times to assess the scaffold bioresorption according to the ISO standard. A gradual resorption of the pores walls was observed during the soakings both in SBF and in Tris-HCl.
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- Chiara Renghini
- Department SAIFET-Section of Physical Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Via Brecce Bianche 1, 60131 Ancona, Italy
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Yang S, Wu X, Mei R, Yang C, Li J, Xu W, Ye S. Biomaterial-loaded allograft threaded cage for the treatment of femoral head osteonecrosis in a goat model. Biotechnol Bioeng 2008; 100:560-6. [DOI: 10.1002/bit.21792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Mastrogiacomo M, Corsi A, Francioso E, Di Comite M, Monetti F, Scaglione S, Favia A, Crovace A, Bianco P, Cancedda R. Reconstruction of extensive long bone defects in sheep using resorbable bioceramics based on silicon stabilized tricalcium phosphate. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 12:1261-73. [PMID: 16771639 DOI: 10.1089/ten.2006.12.1261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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In this study we evaluated the performance of Skelite, a resorbable bioceramic based on silicon stabilized tricalcium phosphate (Si-TCP), in promoting the repair of a large-sized, experimentally induced defect in a weight-bearing long bone sheep model. Eighteen 2-year-old ewes were used in this study. Animals were sacrificed at 3, 6, and 12 months. One animal entered a very prolonged followup and was sacrificed 2 years after surgery. Bone formation and scaffold resorption were evaluated by sequential x-ray studies, CT scans, histology, immunohistology, microradiography, and quantitative analysis of x-ray studies (optical density) and microradiographs (percentage of bone and scaffold area). Our data show an excellent implant integration and significant bone regeneration within the bone substitute over the course of the experiment. Progressive osteoclastic resorption of the biomaterial was also evident. At 1 year from surgery, the remaining scaffold was approximately 10-20% of the scaffold initially implanted, while after 2 years it was essentially completely resorbed. At the end of the observation period, the segmental defect was filled with newly formed, highly mineralized, lamellar bone.
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